This is a coded Excel game! If you want to use it, you will have to have Excel and allow macros.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- White boards, markers, and erasers for each group
- Copies of a list of questions for each group
DIRECTIONS
- Divide your class into groups
- Each group gets one of the four colors. If there are more than four groups, let groups work together as teams under one color.
- Groups answer questions on their white boards.
- For each answer, have one student from that group bring their white board and questions list to you.
- If they are correct, mark that question complete on the list and have them take a turn placing a colored square.
GAME PLAY
- Click New Game to clear the board.
- Click a color and then click any white square on the board to place a piece. All adjacent pieces will become that color.
- Clicking "Clear" is like using white as a color. It will white out all adjacent pieces and can only be played on a white square.
- Click Edit to turn on editing mode and change the color of single squares.
- Click the desired color or Clear and then any square.
- Click Edit again to turn off editing mode.
- The winner is the team with the most squares in their color when time is up.
- If you are playing for 40 - 50 minutes, I recommend clearing the board once and playing again. The first time has a learning curve, so the second round will be much more competitive.
TECHNICAL TIPS
- If you are using an electric blackboard, use the USB (in addition to the HTMI) to enable touch screen! Then the students can place the pieces themselves!
- If an error message pops up, just click continue. It will still work fine!
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